The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered family life in the United States. Over the long duration of the pandemic, parents had to adapt to shifting work conditions, virtual schooling, the closure of daycare facilities, ...
Design logs provide a way for designers to articulate their goals, track their progress, and record decisions. College students in an introductory game design course were assigned to keep design logs during a multi-week, ...
Ross Immersive is an immersive learning project funded by Ball State University. In this immersive learning opportunity, Ball State University's Ross Immersive Learning Team (NEWS 397) partnered with the Ross Community ...
The immersive aspect of this semester’s class is to look at the Village Promenade Learning Lab and create an event that can use the space there for the benefit of those who are now living on the premises. This is a proposal ...
This immersive learning project creates a website featuring an interactive map that details and promotes organizations operating sustainably in Indiana. Journalism students produced original media content highlighting ...
Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal aims to enrich student learning by providing an opportunity for undergraduate students to have their original, scholarly work reviewed by and published in a ...
Located in Muncie, Indiana, Ball State prides itself on being a student-centered, community- engaged, and sustainability focused public research university. Ball State transforms entrepreneurial learners into impactful ...
In Spring 2022, twelve urban planning students in PLAN203 Regional Analysis and Design Studio of Ball State University investigated SMART (Sustainable, mobile, affordable, resilient and technological) city options for the ...
In the spring 2022 semester, the Urban Planning 498 class worked with the Muncie Land Bank to find appropriate properties for the land bank to acquire. The mission of the Muncie Land Bank, Inc., is to acquire abandoned and ...
Students in this course explored the potential of stories to enable connections among readers from diverse backgrounds and consider how such literary points of contact can expand outward. Students read contemporary American ...
The Philosophy Outreach Project gets high school students across Indiana thinking.
POP creates alternative spaces for learning in classrooms, clubs, online, and conference settings. By curating philosophical content and ...
Ball State students in the energy assessment project worked with ecoREHAB, a community partner. About 50 students used home energy assessment tools to assess, analyze, and evaluate energy utilization in four Muncie ...
The Whitely Community is a traditionally African American neighborhood in Muncie that, from a historical point of view, has not been “on the map”, both literally and metaphorically. The aim of this interdisciplinary immersive ...
Experiential learning is the philosophical term behind the idea of immersing oneself in a subject in order to learn. Aristotle wrote, "for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them". Being ...
This course focuses on the native plant communities of prairies, wetlands, and woodlands and the dependence these communities have on pollinators. This class collaborated with Muncie Public Library staff from the Maring-Hunt ...
In the Spring of 2022, Landscape Architecture's Park and Open Space Design Studio tackled 3 different immersive learning projects simultaneously: The Vernon Township/Fortville’s Community Garden, Indianapolis’s Wend Skate/Art ...
Have you ever wanted to learn about how to form your own software startup company? What are those terminology around like series a, series b, etc? How can you find someone to invest in your idea? What are freemium, ...
Partnering with local schools, the Computer Science for Muncie (and Surrounding) Schools (CS4MS+) project team researched, developed, curated, and delivered instructional resources which incorporate Computer Science (CS) ...
The Conservation Tales project is finishing work on two new books for this series of children's books. The books will feature Sloths and Macaws, and will make up the new "Central America Series." The set will be published ...
Health Science 302 and 494 are courses that include junior and senior majors completing their final semester of coursework before beginning their internships. The courses seek to highlight the skills necessary to delivery ...